The deputy leader of the Greens, Mehreen Faruqi, has hit back at claims Fatima Payman’s resignation from Labor was orchestrated, insisting that Muslim women are often “stereotyped” as unable to make their own decisions.
Faruqi said she had “been in touch with Senator Payman over the past few weeks and also way before that” and believed the first-term senator made up her own mind after “following her moral compass” and listening to the community.
